Costa Rica

Pros: rainforests,volcanoes,crocodiles,once in a lifetime trip
Cons: rapidly growing tourism,difficult to travel without guide

Costa Rica was a beautiful place to visit. One of the best aspects and worst was the lack of tourism. Without tourism the countryside was untouched and breath-taking and most f all real. Without tourism, we found it difficult to communicate with the...

Pros: swimming pools , beaches, and food
Cons: rain

When I went to Costa Rica I had a glorious time. The Hotel Captain Suizo had a great breakfast buffett of fresh fruit and scrambled eggs, all kids favorites. They also had live entertainment in the form of hermit crabs that we brought up from the beach...

Pros: climate still reasonably cheap people friendly laid back relaxed
Cons: bad roads but improving each year lack of efficient service people in hotels, restaurants

Costa Rica got discovered about 20 years ago and since then has been thru a few cycles but consistently is attracting more visitors from North America each year. In late 2004 and early 2005 this seemed to increase dramatically especially resulting in ...

Pros: read my review... an actual perspective from a COSTA RICAN
Cons: read my review... an actual perspective from a COSTA RICAN

Being a COSTA RICAN I would like to contribute and make a general review of my country. Much has been said about the beauty and the enormous biodiversity (fauna & flora). Jacques Costeau (yes the famous scientist and marine biologist) once said that of ...

Pros: La gente, el clima, una abundancia de diversidad y la fuga de aca!
Cons: Ya hay muchos "expatriates" alli!

Existence differs from "living" when one realizes o se da cuenta que there is more to the day-to-day activity pool than what most norteamericanos understand as the lief motif for rising each morn!

Costa Rica appears to be an isle of refuge,...

Pros: Beautiful countryside, friendly people and beautiful countryside!!!!!!!
Cons: driving

My mother and I arrived in Costa Rica on November 29, 2001. It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. We rented a 4 wheel drive jeep from Hertz and off we went. Now I had heard that the roads were going to be a little challenging, but that is...

Pros: beautiful, diversified, a lot to do, great food
Cons: not a lot of people speak English, still considered a 3rd world country

Review Topic:  Overview

Costa Rica is truly a beautiful place! The best part about it is it is not "touristy". This is a gorgeous country with little development that preserves it's natural beauty. It is great...

Pros: BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPING AND RAINFOREST
Cons: NOT FOR EVERYONE

My family went to Costa Rica in March. I think Costa Rica is overrated. The first 2 nights we stayed in San Jose. The hotel standards in Costa Rica are alot different than our standards in the United States. The hotel room was horrible. It smelled ...

Pros: beautiful & exotic, friendly people
Cons: some dangerous areas, hard to get to some areas,

I went to Costa Rica on a church mission trip and fell in love with the country. I stayed for 2 weeks in one of the more destitute areas, La Fortuna, but even it was incredibly gorgeous. The people were marvelous. We hiked in the rain forest to a...

Pros: Scenery, adventure, friendly natives
Cons: San Jose is a pit

Costa Rica provided one of our best vacation trips ever. We went last summer with 14 other people, a guide and a driver, provided by Outdoor Adventure Travel. We loved the country, the people, the scenery, and the wild life. The tour was well-planned,...

Pros: country, weather, native people, country (get out of the resort and see the country.
Cons: The resorts (well, if you stay too long...), the tourists in the resorts.

My wife and I stayed at Fiesta Premiere Resort and Spa on Playa Hermosa for our honeymoon for one week in February '06. I've heard Fiesta Premiere is ranked #2 in Costa Rica behind the Four Seasons. Costa Rica is the most non commercial non "tourist ...

Pros: Fresh Seafood
Cons: Depleted forests, filthy ocean

Ok, so I went to CR for a two week honeymoon. We planned on staying at three highly recommended resorts that represented the best in all CR has to offer. (not cheap)

It was awful! Here's why you should NOT go.

1. CR is...

Pros: beauty everywhere. Tourists are not treated as such.
Cons: Cant think of any.

The dogs in Costa Rica have no tails. Other than a few chairs, I saw no plastic in the whole country. There are children walking alone safely everywhere. The presentation of food on the plate is excellent and obviously important to Ticos.
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Pros: Great Surf
Cons: Riptides

Some of the best big wave surf in Central America. It's nothing compared to the mile long left-hand break off corcovado, but it will suffice (not to mention that I'm not going to give you directions to the corcovado spot). Free pool at Thrusters....

Pros: Clean, good authentic food
Cons: The surrounding city is quite depressing.

The only place we found worth staying in San Jose, Costa Rica on your travel into Costa Rica was the Hotel Gran d'or a renovated villa in the center of San Jose. Quiet, simple luxury of a bed and breakfast. We stayed at the Gran d'or and ate all our...